Former Newcastle and Brighton boss Chris Hughton would like to see English and Irish clubs working closer.
Hughton believes direct partnerships between Irish and English clubs could be considered as a method to relieve another big issue affecting player development, with Premier League academies overloaded with young players.
There is an issue with academies," he told the Sunday World.
They have huge numbers of players from all over the UK and Ireland that are not getting enough first-team football and their careers can stagnate.
We need to get more of them out at Championship and League One clubs to prove they are good enough to play in the Premier League, but loaning players is not always a solution.
I look at a player like Jayson Molumby, who I had at Brighton. You loan a player out and they don't always get the games they were expecting or they develop in a different way.
Then they can struggle to adapt back into your team when the loan ends.
We also have issues with reserve teams being replaced by under-21 teams, so players who are not in a team regularly can drift and it can be difficult to break that cycle."
